Akoma Danso-Dapaah

2026 Diverso Fellow
Vassar College

Obroni Wawu
Logline: In a futuristic Ghana, a boy living by a landfill and a rich schoolgirl forge an unlikely friendship that threatens both their illusions of freedom.

A Ghanaian-American writer with a Film and Political Science degree from Vassar, Akoma works at the intersection of arts and politics. Influenced by a family immersed in Ghana’s anti-colonial and post-independence politics, her writing draws on personal experiences with a political consciousness. A childhood marked by constant movement and navigating “in-between” identities and spaces shapes her style of storytelling centered around belonging, childhood, and displacement. Akoma weaves Ghanaian and West African cosmologies into contemporary sociopolitical landscapes, using the past as a device to interrogate the present and future undoubtedly shaped by colonial legacy and cultural memory. Along with her experience in feature-film writing, Akoma finds passion in character-driven narratives within television writing.